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661692

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Sri Lanka: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the co-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the 30th Session of the UN Human Rights Council held in October 2015, if he will make representations to the government of Sri Lanka to respect its commitments and allow international prosecutors to investigate allegations of violations of international humanitarian law in that country; and if he will encourage his international counterparts to make similar such representations.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	58271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text We welcomed the historic co-sponsorship by Sri Lanka of Resolution 30/1 at the UN Human Rights Council on 1 October 2015 committing it to reconciliation, accountability and the protection of human rights. While Sri Lanka has made progress against the commitments made in the resolution, much remains to be done. The High Commissioner for Human Rights will present his final progress report at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March 2017. Our long standing position is that Sri Lanka should implement the commitments in Resolution 30/01, including its commitment to accountability. Ministers and senior officials have underlined the importance of Sri Lanka delivering in full on its UNHRC commitments in recent discussions with representatives of the Sri Lankan government and with our international partners. We have done so while recognising the scale of the challenge this represents and the importance of allowing time for credible, well thought out transitional justice mechanisms to be developed and implemented. answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/01/2017 15:38:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

800501

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what account his Department takes of the Government's policy on immigration in its planning for future housing needs.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>We recently consulted on standardising our approach to calculating local housing need. This calculation takes into account household projections.</p><p>These projections represent the most comprehensive, evidence based, understanding of future household formation, and accounts for a forecast fall in net migration.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/12/2017 17:50:31 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

773102

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Airports: Planning
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to include protection for airfields in the National Planning Policy Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	108384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework recognises the significant contribution that aviation makes to economic growth. It requires local authorities, when preparing their Local Plans, to take account of the role of airfields in meeting business, leisure, training and emergency service needs. Planning guidance supporting the Framework makes clear local authorities should consider the interconnectivity between airfields of different sizes and that they should have regard to the Aviation Policy Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/10/2017 10:07:33 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

800524

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Aviation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to the General Aviation Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of how current planning guidance supports the Government's vision of the UK being the best place in the world for General Aviation.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework expects local planning authorities, when preparing their Local Plans, to take account of the role of airfields in meeting business, leisure, training and emergency service needs.</p><p>The planning practice guidance supporting the Framework was strengthened in March 2015, following publication of the General Aviation Strategy, to make clear that aviation makes a significant contribution to economic growth across the country, including in relation to small and medium sized airports and airfields.</p><p>The guidance advises that local planning authorities should consider the interconnectivity between airfields of different sizes and that they should have regard to the Aviation Policy Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/12/2017 12:37:45 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

798634

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Green Belt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department's policy on supporting the Green Belt has changed since his Department published its National Planning Policy Framework in 2012; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers recently reaffirmed the Government’s clear manifesto commitment to maintaining the strong protections for Green Belt, which are set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. The Framework makes clear that a local authority may alter the shape of its Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, using the Local Plan process. The Framework does not define ‘exceptional circumstances’. However, in the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it demonstrates that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting its identified development needs<strong>,</strong> including:</p><p>- effective use of suitable brownfield land;</p><p>- the potential offered by under-used land;</p><p>- optimising the density of development; and</p><p>- exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.</p><p>We have been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018.</p><p>Since records began in 1997, Green Belt has continued to cover around 13 per cent of England, and overall we consider that national policy has successfully restrained urban sprawl. Where necessary, a local authority in consultation with the community can propose a Green Belt boundary change, as part of its Local Plan process, but the revised Plan is subject to rigorous, formal examination by a planning inspector before it is adopted.</p><p>The Framework is not law, but the law does require local authorities engaged in Plan-making to have regard to the Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 117029 117030 117031 question first answered 06/12/2017 17:46:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

798635

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Green Belt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether local planning authorities can cite Green Belt restraints as a reason for not meeting housing targets under the Objectively Assessed Housing Need.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers recently reaffirmed the Government’s clear manifesto commitment to maintaining the strong protections for Green Belt, which are set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. The Framework makes clear that a local authority may alter the shape of its Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, using the Local Plan process. The Framework does not define ‘exceptional circumstances’. However, in the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it demonstrates that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting its identified development needs<strong>,</strong> including:</p><p>- effective use of suitable brownfield land;</p><p>- the potential offered by under-used land;</p><p>- optimising the density of development; and</p><p>- exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.</p><p>We have been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018.</p><p>Since records began in 1997, Green Belt has continued to cover around 13 per cent of England, and overall we consider that national policy has successfully restrained urban sprawl. Where necessary, a local authority in consultation with the community can propose a Green Belt boundary change, as part of its Local Plan process, but the revised Plan is subject to rigorous, formal examination by a planning inspector before it is adopted.</p><p>The Framework is not law, but the law does require local authorities engaged in Plan-making to have regard to the Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 117028 117030 117031 question first answered 06/12/2017 17:46:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

798636

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Green Belt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the (a) regulations that apply to and (b) role in national planning of the Green Belt; and if he will make a statement?
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers recently reaffirmed the Government’s clear manifesto commitment to maintaining the strong protections for Green Belt, which are set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. The Framework makes clear that a local authority may alter the shape of its Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, using the Local Plan process. The Framework does not define ‘exceptional circumstances’. However, in the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it demonstrates that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting its identified development needs<strong>,</strong> including:</p><p>- effective use of suitable brownfield land;</p><p>- the potential offered by under-used land;</p><p>- optimising the density of development; and</p><p>- exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.</p><p>We have been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018.</p><p>Since records began in 1997, Green Belt has continued to cover around 13 per cent of England, and overall we consider that national policy has successfully restrained urban sprawl. Where necessary, a local authority in consultation with the community can propose a Green Belt boundary change, as part of its Local Plan process, but the revised Plan is subject to rigorous, formal examination by a planning inspector before it is adopted.</p><p>The Framework is not law, but the law does require local authorities engaged in Plan-making to have regard to the Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 117028 117029 117031 question first answered 06/12/2017 17:46:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

798637

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Green Belt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has plans to remove Green Belt status from land in order to meet its housing commitments.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers recently reaffirmed the Government’s clear manifesto commitment to maintaining the strong protections for Green Belt, which are set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. The Framework makes clear that a local authority may alter the shape of its Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, using the Local Plan process. The Framework does not define ‘exceptional circumstances’. However, in the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it demonstrates that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting its identified development needs<strong>,</strong> including:</p><p>- effective use of suitable brownfield land;</p><p>- the potential offered by under-used land;</p><p>- optimising the density of development; and</p><p>- exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.</p><p>We have been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018.</p><p>Since records began in 1997, Green Belt has continued to cover around 13 per cent of England, and overall we consider that national policy has successfully restrained urban sprawl. Where necessary, a local authority in consultation with the community can propose a Green Belt boundary change, as part of its Local Plan process, but the revised Plan is subject to rigorous, formal examination by a planning inspector before it is adopted.</p><p>The Framework is not law, but the law does require local authorities engaged in Plan-making to have regard to the Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 117028 117029 117030 question first answered 06/12/2017 17:46:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

800503

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Green Belt
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has any plans to widen the duty to cooperate to include a requirement for councils to consider together the long-term strategic function of the Green Belt and not proceed only on a site by site basis.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	117124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>Many areas of Green Belt cross local authority boundaries, and the creation or alteration of Green Belt has always been a strategic matter on which all local authorities involved liaise and work together. The National Planning Policy Framework clearly expects local authorities to ensure that Green Belt is consistent with the Local Plans of adjoining areas, and that Green Belt land continues to fulfil the purposes of Green Belt.</p><p>In the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market,</em> we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it can show that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting identified development needs. These options are:</p><ul><li><p>making effective use of suitable brownfield sites and the opportunities offered by estate regeneration</p></li><li><p>the potential offered by land which is currently underused, including surplus public sector land where appropriate</p></li><li><p>optimising the proposed density of development</p></li><li><p>exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement</p></li></ul><p>My Department has been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018, when we will also issue a revised National Planning Policy Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/12/2017 17:44:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

802729

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Aviation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 117145, on Aviation, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department's guidance to local planning authorities on considering the interconnectivity between airfields of different sizes and having regard to the Aviation Policy Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	118278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Local planning authorities must have regard to the National Planning Policy Framework, supported by our planning practice guidance, when preparing their Local Plan. The Framework and the guidance are also material considerations in planning decisions.</p><p>It is for local planning authorities to decide how they will apply the guidance in the particular circumstances of individual planning cases and in accordance with the development plan.</p><p>My Department is working closely with the Department for Transport in looking at issues relating to general aviation, including airfields.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 14/12/2017 12:22:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 29216 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps